Samsung Spain Launches Smart Cap To Help Blind Swimmers Compete

Samsung has developed a new swim cap to help blind swimmers navigate in the pool. The Blind Cap was developed with the help of Cheil Spain, a Spanish communications agency, and the Spanish Paralympics Committee to help improve the current and less efficient method, which has been used since blind swimming became a Paralympic sport.

Until now blind swimmers were tapped on the head or back – based on variations in timing – by a coach or an official when they got close enough to the wall, in order to make their flip turn. Samsung’s new Blind Cap is here to change this.